Membership

Criteria, Selection, and Evaluation

NM-INSPIRES members consist of senior, mid-career, and early-career investigators with current environmentally relevant funded research programs. In addition, we are committed to cultivating a diverse membership by discipline, by research focus (e.g., mechanistic, clinical, population or public health), and by demographics.

NM-INSPIRES members are identified using the following criteria by the RFG Leaders and are recommended to the AC for review and potential acceptance. Members must meet at least one below mentioned criteria:

1. Members have a primary appointment in an academic department and interest in basic and/or translational environmental health research, as evidenced by current funding of R or K NIH, or other extramural grant.
2. Members have evidence of environmentally relevant peer-reviewed publications or evidence of current, past, or future activities.
3. Members align with one or more RFG, and agree to participate in Center Programs.
4. Associate Center Members include investigators with strong interests in environmental health research, but are lacking ongoing peer-reviewed research, or investigators with established research but are developing collaborations with full members that are not yet seasoned/senior investigators.

Note: All P30 members must cite P30 grant support 1P30ES032755-01 in their publications.

Membership Benefits

NM-INSPIRES members will have benefits made available to all members.  These include:

1. Membership in a Focus Group that provides for exchange of ideas, shared resources, and new collaboration opportunities that lead to shared publications and grants.
2. Access to pilot project funding opportunities to test new hypothesis and develop preliminary data for grant submissions.
3. Access to Facility Cores that provide discounted services only to NM-INSPIRES members conducting EHS-related research
4. Opportunities for research support and translational research engagement through the IHSFC Core.
5. Interactions with community partners regarding local environmental concerns through the CEC
6. Access to NM-INSPIRES events including special seminars, workshops, annual retreat, and other networking and educational opportunities.
7. Training opportunities for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows
8. Career development opportunities and training for EHS Young Investigators.

Membership Responsibilities

Full and affiliate members are all expected to:

1. Demonstrate a commitment to environmental health whether through interdisciplinary research, community outreach, education, advocacy or clinical care

2. Cite the NIEHS P30 NM-INSPIRES Center grant on relevant publications including whenever a Center Core resource was utilized or consultation provided (P30ES032755)

How to Cite the Center's Support             

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, our sponsoring agency, requires investigators who use the NM-INSPIRES Center's resources and services to acknowledge that support in the publications as well as any poster presentations, seminar talks, press releases, and other documents relevant to research. This acknowledgement also applies to recipients of all NM-INSPIRES pilot funding/support. NIEHS recommends using this acknowledgement text: "Support for this research was provided by core center grant P30ES032755 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health."

Current Members and Associate Members

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